Research & Databases

AllMusic is a comprehensive and in-depth resource for finding out more about the albums, bands, musicians and songs. On AllMusic you'll find in-depth Information about your favorite albums, musicians and songs and reviews of upcoming and classic albums including new releases, sound samples and streaming links etc.

Non-profit pop music library and research center. Specializes in pop music created since 1950. Titles in an extensive catalogue, no access.

This library contains recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users. Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download.

Platform of the famous jazz label with interviews and performances of jazz artists.

Site dedicated to electronic musician and composer Daphne Oram.

The international movie database with:
1. Movies, TV & Showtimes
2. Celebs, events & photo's
3. News & community
You can make watchlists, ratings and add contributions. You can register yourself as an IMDb Pro and also download an app on your mobile phone.

National Public Radio of the USA. With information, news, audio & video.

The Performing Arts Databases page contains database and catalog resources that are intended to help users with research in the performing arts areas. The databases are stand-alone resources that are not integrated with the rest of the Library’s digital collections or catalogs. In many cases, the databases do not reflect actual holdings of the Library of Congress and are provided only as reference resources.

Direct access to the journal Sight & Sound of the British Film Institute. Feature articles and interviews on recent motion pictures, notes on festivals, book reviews and film and video reviews.

Multidisciplinary platform on music & sound, art & design. Podcasts of interviews with creative performers.

Developed in association with the Indiana University Digital Library Program, the Televised Opera and Musical Comedy Database documents more than three-quarters of a century of opera, operetta and musical comedy telecasts produced in the United States. The database traces performance programming from early presentations on experimental TV stations to current live and recorded productions released on broadcast and closed circuit television, cable, home video and webcasts.

The Global Jukebox is presented as a free, non-commercial, educational place for everybody ‐ students, educators, scholars, scientists, musicians, dancers, linguists, artists and music fans can all explore expressive patterns in their own cultural-geographic and diasporic settings and alongside others'.

The Great 78 Project is a community project for the preservation, research and discovery of 78rpm records. From about 1898 to the 1950s, an estimated 3 million sides (~3 minute recordings) have been made on 78rpm discs.

This searchable database provides bibliographic information on approximately 34,000 ethnographic sound recordings. Most were recorded between 1933 and 1950.

WhoSampled is the world's largest community for fans of sampled music, cover songs and remixes.
WhoSampled is open to everyone to submit information about a sample, cover song or remix, and subject to approval it will be added to the database, published across our platforms, to be discovered and discussed by the world.